The Carbon Credit Network has emerged as the winner of the #NGRCleanCooking Campaign which ended on October 16, 2017. The objective of the campaign is to encourage Nigerian Alliance partners to be more visible by sharing their activities in the clean cooking industry online. At the end of the campaign, Carbon Credit Network had the most engagements and shared content about clean cooking on Facebook and Twitter! Just recently, the NACC secretariat organized a Social media training to help partners use social media effectively, for visibility and business success. The campaign is also in preparation for this year’s forum slated for November 28, 2017, which promises to be even bigger than last year’s edition! We congratulate the Carbon Credit Network as they win a free exhibition slot during the clean cooking forum and other...

The Nigeria Clean Cooking Forum is slated for Tuesday, November 28, 2017. Like last year, this year’s edition is being hosted by the Federal Ministry of Environment and the Nigerian Alliance for Clean Cookstoves. A registration link will be shared in the coming days to attend or exhibit at this event. Save the...

The Nigerian Alliance for Clean Cookstoves shortlists one active partner every month to be showcased as the Partner of the Month. This month, we have decided to do something different and interesting in preparation for the forthcoming Nigeria Clean Cooking Forum. #NGRCleanCooking is a campaign we are launching in search of the Partner of the Month for October. This is going to be different from the regular Partner of the Month as it comes with extra benefits such as: • Free exhibition at the forthcoming Nigeria Clean Cooking Forum • 50% discount for an advert on the forum’s programme. This is in addition to the regular benefits below; • You will be showcased as the Partner of the Month for October on the NACC Newsletter • You will be featured on the NACC website from October till end of November 2017 How to qualify for this: • Your company must be a registered partner of the Nigerian Alliance for Clean Cookstoves • Your company must have an active Facebook or Twitter page of your clean cooking activities. • You must be following NACC on facebook and twitter • Share your activities in the clean cooking industry using #NGRCleanCooking on facebook or twitter. Shared content can either be written or graphics. The company with the highest engagement such as likes, comments, shares or re-tweets wins. This is open to all clean cookstove and fuel producers, distributors, marketers, promoters and champions. The winner will be announced on our website, facebook and twitter pages on Monday 16 October...

The Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves (GACC) in partnership with Tata trust, Teri and other stakeholders are organizing the Clean Cooking Forum 2017 from October 24-28 in New Delhi, India, with the theme “Driving Demand, Delivering Impact” of cleaner and more efficient cookstoves and fuels. The Clean Cooking Forum will bring together over 500 global leaders and practitioners from business, finance, civil society, the UN, government, and academia that is working to accelerate the production, deployment, and use of cleaner, more efficient cookstoves and fuels to share best-practices, explore innovative approaches and financing mechanisms, and help forge new partnerships. The first three (3) days will be informative sessions, networking events, and technology demonstrations. During the last two (2) days, the Alliance will offer participants a range of site visits to provide first-hand knowledge of the latest Indian business models, cookstove designs, and consumer LPG enterprises. The Forum marks an important milestone for the Alliance as stakeholders come together to share their efforts to drive demand and achieve greater impacts for women’s empowerment, environment, livelihoods, and health. For information about the forum click...

Clean cookstoves entrepreneurs and other NACC partners in Nigeria participated in an innovative social media workshop designed to help them to enhance their advocacy and marketing of their clean cookstoves/fuels in order to achieve better results. The training workshop was intended to infuse professional approaches in the use of social media, to raise awareness about, create demand for and serve customers effectively. It is no longer news that social media has come to stay! In today’s world where everything is migrating online, partners of the Nigerian Alliance for Clean Cookstoves will be left behind if customers cannot find their products or services online. In the words of Bill Gates, “If your business is not on the internet, then your business will be out of business”! To this end, one-day in-person social media training was organized by Nigerian Alliance for Clean Cookstoves on Wednesday, September 13, 2017 in Abuja, to equip partners of the Nigerian Alliance for Clean Cookstoves with tools for an effective online presence and a strategic social media management plan for their businesses. It was emphasized that social media tools will be effective if they are differentiated in content suiting to various audiences and used along with other modes of communication such as print media, radio, word of the mouth etc. Participants worked through a series of “learn by doing” sessions on defining a winning social media strategy, effective presence on Facebook, Twitter & LinkedIn, and how to automate the processes in these social media platforms. The training also covered the basics of blogging, measuring social media metrics for success and shared useful/free tools for digital marketing...

The Ladies International Social Club of Abuja (LISCOA) (formerly known as Abuja International Women’s Club – AIWC), recently empowered Internally Displaced People in Yola, Adamawa State! The women only club was concerned about how other women in rural communities are exposed to the danger of smoke inhalation while cooking and decided to donate energy efficient wood stoves to help reduce the menace of smoke related diseases to women. Women in the IDP camp also stand the risk of sexual molestation whenever they go to the bush to fetch firewood to cook for their family. This intervention will go a long way in protecting the female IDPs from sexual molestation and smoke inhalation which causes various respiratory diseases. The LISCOA is a non-political, non-religious, non-profitable organization established for women from the International community residing in and around Abuja and has decided to make an impact in the lives of vulnerable women. The main purpose of the club is to promote friendship and understanding among women of diverse nationalities by organizing humanitarian, recreational and social...